Ron Wyffels

Education

M.F.A., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 1981
B.F.A., State University College at Buffalo, NY, 1973

Exhibitions
         
“Sense & Non” - Prints, Drawings, & Sculptures by Ron Wyffels, Cerulean Arts Gallery, Phila., PA, Sept. 28 - Nov. 9, 2007.
“Prints & Pictures” By Ron Wyffels, West Chester University, Oct. 2006
“The Pressed Image”, Art In City Hall, Philadelphia, PA, July 10 - Oct. 6, 2006
Drawings By The Faculty, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Jan.-Mar. 2006
Works On Paper, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Aug.-Dec. 2005
“Dear Fleisher, 4x6 Inches of Art”, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Phila., PA, 2004
PAFA Fellowship Collection and Members’ Current Works, United Plaza Bldg., Phila., PA, 2003, 2004
“30 x 30”, Anniversary Exhibition, Prints of Brandywine Workshop, Phila. Foundation, PA, 2002
“Four Printmakers”, Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL, 2001
Rodger LaPelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, 1986 thru 2001
“Lithographs by Ron Wyffels”, Philadelphia Museum of Art Restaurant Gallery, Phila. PA, 2000
Awards Exhibition, PAFA Fellowship, Museum of the PAFA, Philadelphia, PA, 1999
101st Annual Juried Exhibition of PAFA Fellowship, Berthe M. Goldberg Memorial Award, Historic Yellow Springs, PA, 1998
"20 x 12: A Generation of Challenge Artists", Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Phila., PA, 1998
"The Unbroken Line", Museum of American Art of PAFA, Philadelphia, PA, 1997
99th Annual Juried Exhibition of PAFA Fellowship, Woodmere Art Museum, Phila., PA 1996
Library of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1996
Artforms Gallery, Manayunk, PA, 1996
98th Annual Juried Exhibition of PAFA Fellowship, Museum Purchase Award, West Chester University, PA, 1995
Artists' House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1995
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, 1995
Fellowship Award Exhibition, Leona Karp Braverman Memorial Award in Sculpture, Museum of American Art at PAFA, Philadelphia, PA, 1995
97th Annual Juried Exhibition of PAFA Fellowship, American College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 1994
Paley Design Center, Philadelphia, PA, 1994
Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial Challenge Exhibition, Philadelphia., PA, 1993
Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA, 1990
The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA, 1990
The James Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, 1990
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY, 1989
Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA, 1989
Manayunk Art Center, Philadelphia, PA 1989
Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, 1988
Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC, 1988
Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ, 1988
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pa, 1987, 1988
The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, 1987
Peale House Gallery, Penn. Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1987
New Jersey Arts Annual, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, 1987
New Jersey Arts Annual, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, 1986
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, 1984, 1986
DW Gallery, Dallas, TX, 1984
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, 1982, 1984
The Bank of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 1983
The Lawndale Alternative Space, Houston, TX, 1983
Patrick Gallery, Austin, TX, 1983
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, 1983
San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1983
Landfall Press Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1982
Danforth Gallery, Livingston, MT, 1981
Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell, MT, 1980
Silver Bow Arts Foundation, Butte, MT, 1980
Ketterer Gallery, Bozeman, MT, 1980
The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, 1979

Professional Experience

Craft Printers, Inc.
Klamath Falls, OR
Darkroom Photographer: Halftone, Kodalith and plate making, 1976.

Stone Roller Lithography Studio
Chicago, IL
Founder, Director, Master Printer of Hand Lithographs, Color proofing and editioning of lithographs using stone and aluminum plates, and Manager of all operations, 1975.

Ron Wyffels / Stone Roller are in the following publications:

Adams, Clinton, "Drawing with Graphite On Stone, A Conversation with Ray George,"
Tamarind Technical Papers, No. 6, Jan. 1977, pp. 66-69, 79.

"News of the Print World: People and Places," The Print
Collector's Newsletter, Vol., VI, No. 6, p. 15.


Landfall Press, Inc.
Chicago, IL
Printer of Hand Lithographs, Color proofing and the editioning of lithographs using stone and aluminum plates, color mixing, 1973-1974.

Teaching

1985 - Present Associate Professor of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

                      Philadelphia, PA

                      Courses taught: Figure & Portrait Lithography; Photo Plate                       Lithography; Preliminary, Intermediate, and Advanced Crayonstone                       Lithography; Drawing; Drawing Concepts Seminar; Printmaking                       Dept. Critic; MFA Critic / Advisor.

1985              Visiting Artist, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
                     Philadelphia, PA

1982-1984      Pace-Willson Printmaking Chair, San Antonio Art Institute,
                     San Antonio, TX

                     Courses taught: Intaglio, Lithography, Woodcut and Relief                      Printmaking, Drawing, and Sculpture.  Advanced Intaglio - Aesthetic                      and technical exploration of intaglio: soft and hard ground etching,                      dry point, aquatint, mezzotint, engraving and photo etching.

1981              Assistant Professor of Art (Adjunct Faculty), School of Art and                      Design, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, IL

                     Courses taught: Lithography (Beginning and Advanced)

1981              Instructor of Art, Saint Xaivier College, Chicago, IL

                     Courses Taught: Printmaking I - Relief and Intaglio, Introduction to                      Fine Art - Lecture Course.

1981              Instructor, School of Art / Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

                     Courses taught: Drawing (Intermediate and Advanced)

1978 - 1981    Graduate Teaching assistant, School of Art / Montana State                      University, Bozeman, MT

                     Courses taught: Art Fundamentals - Introduction to all other studio
                     courses. Studio I - Introduction to 2-D Visual Art. Studio III - Color
                     Theory, Advanced Etching.


Awards

Berthe M. Goldberg Memorial Award, 1998.
Museum of the PA Academy of Fine Art, Purchase Award, 1995.
Leona Karp Braverman Memorial Award, 1994.
N.J. State Council on the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship Grant, 1985.
NEA Visual Arts Fellowship Grant, 1983.
Stieren Travel and Enrichment Grant, 1983.




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